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PATTI SMITH |
Patti Smith was born on 30 December 1946 in Chicago, Illinois
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Patti Smith (born December 30, 1946) is a United States musician, singer and poet. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in New Jersey, the daughter of an atheist father and a devout Jehovah's Witness mother, and these opposing influences have informed much of her work since.
She spent the early 1970s painting, writing and performing both poetry and a play, Cowboy Mouth (a collaboration with Sam Shepard), a career path subsidised by rock journalism, especially within the pages of Creem magazine. She also wrote songs during this period in connection with Allen Lanier of the Blue ײyster Cult, who recorded several songs to which Smith contributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini", and "Shooting Shark".
By 1974, however, she was performing rock music herself, initially with guitarist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral (guitar), Jay Dee Daugherty (drums) and Richard Sohl (piano). Financed by money from Smith's friend and former lover Robert Mapplethorpe the band recorded a first single in 1974. The A side of "Piss Factory / Hey Joe" featured a story describing abuse received in an early job in an assembly line in New Jersey, with the flipside a version of the blues standard with the addition of a spoken piece about fugitive heiress Patty Hearst. |
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